监制：黄兆均

这部纪录片展现了世界海上贸易史上白银与中国数百年的纠缠过程。拍摄地点遍布世界各地，被访专家来自亚洲、美国、俄罗斯、南美、英国、欧洲，当然有中国学者-包括著名经济学家、史家李稻葵教授。制作团队在高空拍摄了见证过航海时代白银辉煌的波托西矿山，在圣彼得堡的沙皇宫殿和中国各地，从紫禁城到中国北方的大型光伏电池企业。

This is the extraordinary story of how silver shaped the history of our world, from the 16th century to the present day.
The silver trade kick-started the global economy, connecting China to the European empires and the Americas, and grew the wealth of cities as diverse as Boston, Hong Kong, Manila and New York. Silver toppled the Ming Dynasty, and opened up a new age of international exchange of treasures and ideas between the East and the West. But it also led to the Opium Wars, and started China's 'Century of Humiliation'. And now in the 21st century, China once again finds itself the world's biggest importer of silver, which fuels its hi-tech industries.